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Monday, October 1, 2012

Playoff Prediction Contest

RSN Alberta is pleased to announce that we are running a contest to predict who will win each of the playoff series. Like
most of these types of contests, you will need to predict the winners of all
the Series before the first one starts. So an early upset might ruin your entire
ballot. Conversely, if you pick an under
dog to win it all, and they do, there is a good chance you will be the grand
prize winner. Here’s a hint – Don’t pick
the Red Sox. No really. I know they have the best team on paper, and
only injuries prevented them from winning 100 games again (like they have the
past 3 seasons - on paper), but this year MLB has decided to actually play the
games on the field, and only the real wins and losses are being counted, so Boston
will not have a team in the playoffs. I know – I also think it’s highly unfair,
since we are obviously one of the top teams in the majors, but Mr. Selig has
made his decision, and it doesn’t sound like we can change his mind.

The contest is free and easy to enter.

Here are the rules:

1. Your entry is due before the first pitch of the
first playoff game.The wildcard games are scheduled for Friday
October 5th.I expect the
earliest game would start no earlier than 1 PM EST but this has not yet been
confirmed by MLB.Anyhow, I will accept
any entry dated prior to the official time of first pitch of this first game –
whenever that is.

2. You may only have one official entry per person
and/or e-mail address. That is, you
can’t enter twice under two email addresses, and you can’t have two entries,
one for yourself and one for someone else on the same e-mail. You may, however, update your entry up to the
deadline specified in rule 1. You can
enter today, and if one of the teams you picked ends up not making the
playoffs, you can change your entry.

3. Leave your entry either in the comments section
of this post, or send me an e-mail if you don’t want everybody else seeing your
picks and copying them. After the
deadline I will post all the entries online. (Probably on a shared Google Docs
spreadsheet, but I reserve the right to use another method. Maybe I’ll just write them all down on a
piece of paper and take a picture, and post that).EDIT: See everyone's entry at this link

4. Your entry should include the following:

Winner of AL wildcard game

Winner of NL wildcard game

2 teams playing in ALCS (i.e. winners of
both AL division series)

2 teams playing in NLCS (i.e winners of
NLDS)

2 teams playing in World Series (i.e,
winners of ALCS and NLCS)

World Series Champion

Tiebreaker question #1: # of games to win
the World Series

Tiebreaker question #2: World Series MVP

Tiebreaker question #3: Total runs scored
by winner in all their playoff games
(note: the winning team will play anywhere from 11 to 20 games in the
playoffs.

5. Your entry also needs some way for me to contact
you.If you leave a comment here, please
make sure you include an e-mail address or twitter handle so I can contact
you. I really don't want to have to try to track down "anonymous".

6. Determination of winner:

The winner will be the person with the most
points. Points will be awarded as
follows:

1 point for each correct wildcard game
winner

2 points for each correct division series
winner

4 points for each correct LCS winner

8 points for correct World Series winner

A perfect ballot will get you 26 points and
my unending admiration

7. Finally… This contest is open to all residents
of the continental United States and Canada except for the Province of
Quebec. Why? I have no idea, but all
contests exclude Quebeckers, so there must be some law I don’t know about that
I don’t want to run afoul of. Sorry to
all you Expos fan out there.

Prizes: The winners will get a sports keychain of their choice from WholesaleKeychain.com similar to the ones I reviewed here. There will be one prize for the winner, and
another random prize drawing. Everyone
will get an entry for the random draw by submitting a contest entry. You can get additional entries for doing each
of the following: